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MEA is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization whose primary mission is to work with veterans and their families to publish short stories, essays, poems, and artwork in our bi-annual publication, As You Were: The Military Review, periodic editions of Blue Nostalgia: The Journal of Post-Traumatic Growth and others. Each author or poet that submits work to us is afforded the chance to work one-on-one with a mentor to polish their work or learn new skills and techniques.

Our staff is based all over the country and includes college professors, professional authors, veterans’ advocates, and clinicians. As such, most of our services are provided through email and online writing workshops.

All editing, consultations, and workshops are free of charge. Veterans and their families pay nothing for our services, and they never will.

Under our Publications tab, there are nearly a dozen volumes of creative work crafted by veterans and their family members as well as a virtual art gallery. Our blog posts feature short pieces that cover a wide range of opinion editorials, literary reviews, and profiles on veteran artists and writers.

Please consider spending some time navigating our site and reading and seeing the fine work of veterans and their families from around the globe.

Ribald and unwitting we impale our cultural commodity hacks
Imperial young girls dishing out death in war-torn countries; smitten;
forgotten today, as we talk by the cafeteria, relax.

Imposing hunks of steel, full pivoting technological apex–
Special Forces with eyes on the destroyed human apparition–
Said it was a paint mess.

As for me, my actions serve no merit for contrition
Hostile intent? Yes, there always is, lest
I move the vehicle into position.

Lastly, men, we are on the cusp of securing our AO, yes?
Smoking a pack of reds on guard you read the famous imperial lines
from the box: “Veni, Vedi, Veci”–Human consciousness conquered,
as the mortars rain and the radio blares wholesale death in lively advertisements and jives–
we came, we saw, we squandered.

***Notes: An “RPG” is a Rocket-Propelled Grenade. The military abbreviation “AO” stands for “Area of Operations.”

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